Margaret Chase Smith

Set in Sanford, Maine, Margaret Chase Smith is a large elementary campus, part of Sanford Public Schools. It teaches 396 students across grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Maine's public schools average about 229 students each, so Margaret Chase Smith sits 73% above that benchmark.

Sanford Public Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,250 students. Margaret Chase Smith is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Margaret Chase Smith logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, York County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Margaret Chase Smith has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 54% of students at Margaret Chase Smith qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, York County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,333 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Margaret Chase Smith is one of 61 public schools in York County (combined enrollment of about 24,364 students).

Sanford High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

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